Millennials Shared the Best Parts of Growing Up That Gen Z Will Miss Out On

Growing up in the late ’80s and ’90s was much different than it is today. There was no social media to update your friends on, and if you wanted to be in touch with anyone outside of school, you might have to actually go see them.

If a young person was lucky enough to have a cell phone to use, they had to make sure that they didn’t send too many texts, otherwise their parents might have to pay them off on their next phone bill.

And technology isn’t the only thing that has changed in the past few decades. Young people today don’t remember a time when people used maps and encyclopedias to get all of their information.

When Reddit user u/Bagolyvagymi asked the question, “What’s something that newer generations will never understand?” answers flooded in from “elder Millennials” who remember the good old days of sitcoms, passing notes in school and playing the newest NES games.

Texts Used to Cost 10 Cents

“When free minutes started at 9pm and text messages cost 10¢ each way. So even if you didn’t text your friends back your parents would get mad b/c they still had to pay for it”

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Your Music Was Limited to Your iPod Library

“Having a limited amount of music with you when traveling. Even with MP3 players if you didn’t have the song on it you weren’t going to listen to it until you could connect to a computer. It’s wild having gone from CDs to MP3 players to Streaming.

Zune was best 1v1 me on rust about it.”

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You Couldn’t Wait For Reruns

“missing an episode of a show meant MISSING IT FOREVER. There’s still an episode of “Battlestar Galactica” I never saw.

I could go back and watch it now, but 10 year old me hurt like a gunshot wound for a long time after missing that thing.”

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TV Guide Was a Much-Needed Resource

“Not being able to watch whatever you wanted whenever you wanted. We actually had to look up the shows schedule in a TV guide and be available when it came on.”

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